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I'm seeing an interesting error this evening with the PC client (previously registered no problems.) App starts and the spinner goes for 5 or 10 seconds, then says "There is a problem with your Directv account." Gives error code 2-0-2, lets you try again, restart, or call customer service... Hmm.

Update: Still dead this morning. Called DirecTV, this is being escalated as the first-tier support reps weren't able to do anything useful beyond resetting the box and ensuring that the internet is accessible.

PC client screwed up last night, while watching a movie. Paused the playback for a couple of minutes, when I hit "play" again, no audio. Went back to playlist on PC, played a different movie, no audio. Had to close PC client software and reopen.

By the way, am I right there is no way to minimize the display when you pause playback? It seems like you have to close the currently playing movie, annoying when you've just received an e-mail.

I'm seeing an interesting error this evening with the PC client (previously registered no problems.) App starts and the spinner goes for 5 or 10 seconds, then says "There is a problem with your Directv account." Gives error code 2-0-2, lets you try again, restart, or call customer service... Hmm.

Update: Still dead this morning. Called DirecTV, this is being escalated as the first-tier support reps weren't able to do anything useful beyond resetting the box and ensuring that the internet is accessible.

I'm getting the same 2-0-2 error as AndrewSion my PC. While annoying, I didn't get the Nomad to watch on my PC.

My main issue is that every show i prepare and download to my iPhone from 358 Current TV has messed up audio that basically stops after a few seconds. I don't know if this is due to the fact that this channel is not available in HD. The HD shows I've tried have all worked. Even SD shows on HD channels have worked. Has anyone else had issues with messed up shows?

Solved the 202 error with a complete uninstall/reinstall, including saying yes to removing user settings during uninstall. Didn't work when I told it to not remove them on the first try and then reinstalled, but it did work when I allowed it to remove the user settings when uninstalling again.

On this second reinstall, it decided to re-register, which seemed to be the trick: it gave a warning that the PC's license was messed up, which it seemed to fix automatically during reactivation, and it did not improperly consume another license count, which is good.

So it's up and running again, but the self implosion was pretty disconcerting.

I'm getting the same 2-0-2 error as AndrewSion my PC. While annoying, I didn't get the Nomad to watch on my PC.

My main issue is that every show i prepare and download to my iPhone from 358 Current TV has messed up audio that basically stops after a few seconds. I don't know if this is due to the fact that this channel is not available in HD. The HD shows I've tried have all worked. Even SD shows on HD channels have worked. Has anyone else had issues with messed up shows?

Interesting you should say that, I downloaded a show to my iPhone from channel 358 the other day and the audio was high pitched (like I was watching a Chipmunks movie). I thought maybe it transcoded badly on the Nomad, but when I downloaded that same recording to my PC, it was fine. I then thought it was maybe an SD issue, but I was able to download an SD show from a different channel to my iPhone with no issue.

I tried to Activate with my iPad, and it turns out nomad was upgrading. Put aside my iPad and waited for the three blue lights to come back. It went from three blue lights to an orange flashing light, and stalled. Waited a while, then I restarted nomad, but the same thing happened. Puzzled for a while, and then found the nomad program was still running on my iPad. So I shut it down on my iPad, and magically the blue lights came back on. Seems nomad didn't like the activation program to be running on my iPad when I turned it on. Thought I should post, in case this hits someone else.

I know everyone is familiar with the problem of sports programs running overtime. The only strategy I've seen is to excessively pad the end time of programs. I can just imagine how cranky folks will be when they settle down on their international flight to watch a program, and all they have is the last hour of a ball game.

Moral of the story is to check your shows before you travel. Don't assume you can take the last 10 minutes before you run to the airport to transfer the recordings, and all will be well.

I got rid of the 2-0-2 error with a complete uninstall and reinstall, but it isn't able to process a file. If i try to prepare a new show i get "Waiting to Prepare" and if I try to download a prepared show I get "Waiting to Download" with no process ever made.

I tried a couple different shows from 358 CRNT on the iPad and they won't play at all on it. How can the channel cause an unplayable condition? Doesn't the Nomad convert everything into the same format?

I got rid of the 2-0-2 error with a complete uninstall and reinstall, but it isn't able to process a file. If i try to prepare a new show i get "Waiting to Prepare" and if I try to download a prepared show I get "Waiting to Download" with no process ever made.

I tried a couple different shows from 358 CRNT on the iPad and they won't play at all on it. How can the channel cause an unplayable condition? Doesn't the Nomad convert everything into the same format?

Well, I am sure it tries to! I did the test for a show on CRNT and it won't even start with the play button. I can scrub, but no play, no audio.

My bet is that there's something in the codecs used by that content provider that's mostly- but not all- compatible with the encoding that the iPad can properly transmit.

I got rid of the 2-0-2 error with a complete uninstall and reinstall, but it isn't able to process a file. If i try to prepare a new show i get "Waiting to Prepare" and if I try to download a prepared show I get "Waiting to Download" with no process ever made.

I don't think the pc Sw problem has anything to do with this particular issue- are you sure the nomad box wasn't busy converting and/or downloading something else already, maybe for an iPod/iPhone? And have you tried resetting the Nomad?

I just told it to download, and it's showing "preparing" and the status light is "pulsing", like it normally does when transcoding. Just need to confirm it transfers and lets me play it back (and hopefully names it correctly).

When I retired the HDVR2s (which were great for recording video, both network and "cable" channels, to be transfered to an iPad) I bought an ATSC tuner card for the 3 or 4 TV series that I record and primarily watch on flights between the coasts. My video workflow is to use VideoReDo to edit out commercials, name the files in such a way that I can tell the order in which to watch them, transcode them to m4v, load them in to itunes and then sync. Obviously, a bit of work.

Non-network shows had had to be acquired in a "different" manner.

Nomad is clearly a huge win for me with any non-network content. However, the scrubber bar seems to be a little awkward for trying to do anthing precise to go past the commercials on the recorded network TV.

For those of you that had been in similar situations and now have a Nomad, do I just need to get over it with repect to the commercials because the rest of the benefits out weigh the issue?

Nomad is clearly a huge win for me with any non-network content. However, the scrubber bar seems to be a little awkward for trying to do anthing precise to go past the commercials on the recorded network TV.

For those of you that had been in similar situations and now have a Nomad, do I just need to get over it with repect to the commercials because the rest of the benefits out weigh the issue?

I hear you about the scrubber bar. Are you aware if you "pull down" on the bar, you can scrub with more precision, at half-, quarter- or fine-speed? That helps a lot, once you get used to it.

That said, would be helpful if DirecTV can call up the 30 second rewind button, like HBO GO does with the iOS player. Just my .02.

Nomad does not support OTA recordings, BTW, if that's how you record them on the HR2x's.

Is this a Parental Controls thing (see below)? I have none set, and never have, so I'm not sure why anything on my DVR playlist would be blocked.

The show is "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", which is TV-MA-L-S-V, according to its HR info.

If you tap on Download, will it download?

Good question. I'll give you a conditional "yes".

I just told it to download, and it's showing "preparing" and the status light is "pulsing", like it normally does when transcoding. Just need to confirm it transfers and lets me play it back (and hopefully names it correctly).

Well it not only prepared and copied, but it's now displaying the correct show name (see below)! I did have to quit the client and restart it, for the proper name to show, however.